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Offline DonE911

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American Chestnut ??
« on: August 04, 2005, 09:17:45 pm »
I remember reading about a University ( maybe Penn State ) crossing the american chestnut and a resistant chestnut to acheave a 90 (ish) percent american chestnut.  Does anyone know if they were successful??  Are seedling available??

I am considering buying a 5 acre piece of land and planting in tree's...  not really for me, other than to enjoy, maybe for my grandkids as far as timber value. 

I was considering walnuts along with a few other more common tree's to my area, when I saw an advertisment in a local agriculture paper from a fellow in the atlanta area that is selling american chestnut seedlings for 10 bucks a piece... seeds are from a 34 year old tree that was seeded from a surviving tree ( unk location of the surviving tree ).

If tree's are available I'd be happy to plant some to do my part in bringing it back. It's not going to be a large piece of land so I'm not planting a forrest here.

 
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2005, 11:25:46 pm »
Check this thread, I don't think it will answer all your questions, but might be worth reading:
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=13193.0
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2005, 12:42:26 am »
There is a professor around the LaCrosse, Wisconsin area that is working to develop a disease resistant Chestnut.  He has a grove of chestnuts of all ages.  If you are interested, I can get his name and address for you.
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2005, 06:12:09 pm »

This Chinese chestnut tree is in Orrington, Maine. There are a number of chestnut trees about two hundred yards away so we hope the burrs on this one will hold nuts. 
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2005, 09:05:17 pm »
I sell chestnuts at our farmer's market for a friend of mine.  He has the chinese chestnuts producing and some European Clossals too young tto produce yet.  The clossals produce the largest nuts with the chinese the second largest.  The American is the smallest nut of the three but the best tree for lumber.  I can get you fresh chinese chestnut seed to plant for you.  IM me if you are interested in some.

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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2005, 05:43:01 pm »
Maybe you will find a piece of land that already has nice looking trees on it, and won't have to plant too many?

Also, you may or may not know, juglans species can be detrimental to other plants due to aleopathy.


Does chestnut blight have an alternate host, anyone know how long it can live without a host? :P
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2005, 06:27:59 pm »
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Come on, what is with the 'big' words? 

But the correct spelling is more like:

'allelopathy'

 ;D   Just doing some teasing here....... :)
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2005, 06:49:29 pm »
Hey I was close, only have about 50k in forestry education and a not so good memory to go along with it :-\
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2005, 10:46:54 pm »
Yes, Penn State along with the American Chestnut foundation has many test plots on the outskirts of campus.  From my understanding when talking to Kim Steiner and Tim Philips, saying they are close to a blight resistant Chestnut, but only time will tell. 
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2005, 10:50:35 pm »
Heres one for all you forestry smarties,

Whats the name of the chemical compound that is released by walnuts that is allelopathic?

What is the compound really toxic  to, animal four legged?
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2005, 11:00:58 pm »
5-hydroxy-alphanapthaquinone


I don't know, what is it?  ;D

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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2005, 11:19:43 pm »
Oh man,
That shoots an bunch of holes in my quiz. :D
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2005, 07:27:55 am »
Juglanase :D
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2005, 08:59:19 pm »
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2005, 01:25:22 pm »
I heard a report the other day on NPR about the  poisons in fall leaves. The color of death .
It  seams that  some  trees like walnut are very good at killing off  other trees . American Chestnut was supposed to very  strong poison maker also. But it seems that Tree of Heaven is   currently the best at it now days. The  color change cause a chemical change in the leaf that makes herbicide.
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Re: American Chestnut ??
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2005, 12:44:41 pm »
vist the american chestnut foundations website. not sure of the site url.  They are in the process of developing a blight resistant strain of am. chestnuts, with work and research going on in the southern appalachains.
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